Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, September 10, 1995 TAG: 9509080133
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: COMPILED BY MARY LINN
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Hoover is a past president of the Roanoke Valley and the Virginia associations of Realtors, past chairman of the state association's professional standards and ethics committee, and past chairman of the national organization's multiple listing policy committee.
He is a director of the national and Virginia associations and is a member of the national association's executive committee.
ARCHITECTS
and ENGINEERS
MANUEL R. PENALVER has joined Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern Inc., an architectural, engineering and planning firm based in Roanoke, as project manager for health care and international design. Penalver has more than 28 years' experience in medical facility design and construction, most recently as project director in the Medical Facilities Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He is a registered architect and interior designer and a member of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
COLLEGES
MATTHEW CONN has been named director of public relations at Ferrum College. He was a media relations specialist and assistant director of public relations at York College in Pennsylvania.
CONSTRUCTION
WALT MALONE has joined Moore's Lumber and Building Supplies in Roanoke in the newly created position of construction loan manager. Malone comes from FCA Inc., a building firm in Richmond, where he was vice president.
GOVERNMENT
VICTOR GARBER has been named superintendent of recreation for the Roanoke Department of Parks and Recreation. Garber comes to Roanoke after 11 years of recreation experience in Fayetteville, N.C., where he most recently was general recreation supervisor. He succeeds Owen Grogan, who has left the department.
HEALTH CARE
CHARLES "ROBBIE" AKERS of Pulaski has become the central-southwestern Virginia branch coordinator for Old Dominion Eye Bank. He will work with hospitals and funeral homes from the eye bank's branch office at Gill Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, where he will be responsible for coordinating eye tissue donor referrals. He is a former apprentice resident/trainee for McLaughlin Funeral Home in Hot Springs and E. Alvin Small Funeral Home in Colonial Heights. He also has experience as a home health nurse with Pulaski Community Hospital. Old Dominion Eye Bank is a nonprofit organization established through funding by the Lions Club.
INSURANCE
TOMMY MARTIN has been named agency field consultant for State Farm Insurance Co. in Roanoke in a restructuring of the company. Martin joined State Farm as an agent in 1961. He was promoted to agency manager in 1983 and has had several promotions since then. Before joining State Farm, he worked for Roanoke County government and for the Virginia State Police.
LAW
MALCOLM McLEOD DOUBLES, a Salem lawyer, and THOMAS WILLIAM FARRELL, of Wooten & Hart law firm in Roanoke, have been appointed chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the committee on publications/public information for the Virginia State Bar. GUY MORLEY HARBERT III of Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore in Roanoke also has been named to the committee.
MANUFACTURING
EARL G. HARRELL JR. has been promoted to the newly created position of director of sales of Rusco Window Co. of Roanoke Inc. Harrell joined Rusco in 1989 as a territory representative and had advanced to retail sales manager. Also at Rusco, STEVEN C. DUISER has been named assistant retail sales manager. He joined the company in 1992 as a retail sales representative.
ORGANIZATIONS
The Blue Ridge Chapter of the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society has elected officers for 1995-96: TIM ANGLE, Allstate Insurance Co., president; RICHARD L. ZIRKLE, Morrison Mechanical, first vice president; TOMMY G. LAWHORN, G.J. Hopkins Inc., second vice president; DAVID P. SMITH, Newbern-Trane, secretary/treasurer; PAUL F. ARMENTROUT, Crestar Bank, educational chairman; and MARK W. SLOAN, Newbern-Trane, sergeant-at-arms.
UTILITIES
PHILIP L. SPARKS has been named director of customer services for the Rockbridge District of Virginia Power. He was customer service director for the Charlottesville District. Sparks joined Virginia Power in 1976 and had held positions in power operations and commercial operations at the company's corporate office in Richmond before becoming a director for the Charlottesville District in 1988.
Information on personnel changes of interest to people in business should be sent to this column in care of The Roanoke Times, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010.
by CNB